The attorney representing Jennifer Dulos’ mother in $2.5 million civil lawsuits says Michelle Troconis has “abused” her Fifth Amendment privileges by refusing to answer his questions about her former boyfriend’s company.

A judge overruled a request from Troconis’ attorney, Andrew Bowman, to quash a subpoena requiring his client to be deposed in the lawsuit. But when Troconis arrived last month for the deposition, she invoked her Fifth Amendment rights for every question, according to court papers filed by Weinstein.

Bowman has filed a new motion, opposing Weinstein’s request for a judge to compel Troconis to provide information about Fotis Dulos’ business. Weinstein responded on Thursday, requesting the judge to toss Bowman’s motion because the court papers were not sent directly to him.

Weinstein pointed out in the court filing that Troconis has spoken with state police several times, admitting she did not see Fotis Dulos the morning his estranged wife disappeared, according to arrest warrants. Weinstein also said Troconis and Fotis Dulos created "alibi" notes that were false and she participated in other instances construed by police as attempts to cover up her boyfriend's role in the disappearance, according to the warrants.

While the instances outlined in arrest warrants "does not represent the totality of statements made by Troconis to police," Weinstein said, they "certainly establish that there is more than enough in statements already made by Troconis to police to acknowledge a relationship existed between her and (Fotis) Dulos.

Weinstein has said he will not ask questions related to the disappearance. But Weinstein said he wants to establish any benefits Troconis may have received from the Fore Group, including access to a car and travel to determine "whether or not Fotis Dulos maintained true separate corporate identity for the Fore Group and the sanctity of that corporation as opposed to using it as his personal piggy bank."

Farber filed the lawsuits against her son-in-law and his company more than a year before her daughter went missing on May 24. While Farber contends Fotis Dulos has failed to repay the business loans, his attorney, William Murray, has said the money was a gift since there are no promissory notes.

Fotis Dulos and Troconis were arrested on tampering with evidence and hindering prosecution charges about a week after Jennifer Dulos disappeared. New Canaan police said in arrest warrants that two people resembling Fotis Dulos and Troconis were caught on video in Hartford the night of the disappearance dumping bags that were later found to contain his wife’s blood and clothing, according to arrest warrants.

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Police said Jennifer Dulos was the victim of a “serious physical assault” based on blood evidence found in the garage of her New Canaan home.

The pair were arrested again in early September on another tampering with evidence charge related to a pickup truck belonging to a Fore Group employee that police say was used in the disappearance. Police said video showed Fotis Dulos and Troconis taking the vehicle to an Avon car wash in the days after the disappearance. Those arrest warrants provided a detailed timeline tracing what police say was Fotis Dulos’ movements the morning of the disappearance.

Police said Fotis Dulos likely used the former employee’s pickup truck to drive to and from New Canaan that day. Police said he then urged the employee to swap out the seats of the truck and had the vehicle washed and detailed several days after the disappearance.

The employee eventually removed the seats, but turned them over to investigators who found Jennifer Dulos’ blood on one of them, the arrest warrants state.

Troconis will be back in Stamford criminal court on Oct. 25 and Fotis Dulos is next scheduled to appear on Nov. 6.

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